James Hetfield

Person · Open Library

Works

8

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Film & TV

Acting · Downey, California, USA

James Alan Hetfield is an American musician and songwriter best known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos, both live and in the studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering…

Known for

• Metallica Saved My Life — Self2025
• Metallica: Studio Shit + U.K. Shenanigans — Self2025
• Metallica: Polar Beach Party — Self2025
• Metallica: Poor Swedish Me '96 — Self2025
• Metallica: On the Air (Music Videos + TV Appearances) — Self2025
• Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow — Self2025
• Ozzy: No Escape from Now — Self2025
• Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer — Self2025
• The Thicket — Simon Deasy2024
• Metallica: Helping Hands Concert & Auction — Self2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Massachusetts

Active from

1963

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

17,811

Total plays

65,643

James Hetfield is the rhythm guitarist and vocalist from the band Metallica. Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963, in Downey, Los Angeles County, California. Hetfield was 9 years old when he took his first piano lessons, before taking on his brother David's drums and finally picking up a guitar in his pre-teens. Inspired by bands such as Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Venom, Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy, Hetfield formed his first band, Obsession, in his early teens. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Hetfield">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 77,434x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,188x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,089x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,693x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,268x

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Music

Quotes

• “Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.”
• “I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”
• “Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.”
• “Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.”
• “If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive.”
• “Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 447 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website

www.metallica.com

Image

James Hetfield 2017.jpg

Number of children

3

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